FREE PROGRAMS
We are organizing three main community-oriented and free activities in most cities we are visiting:
Breaking bread, bridging cultures.
Hosted in a local space with a local chef, Silkroad will bring together neighbors, community leaders, artists, and local organizations to share their stories, challenges, and hopes.
Too often, communities are asked to engage with programs or initiatives without ever being invited into true dialogue. A community dinner flips that dynamic.
Stories are told through music & movement.
Join us in a living ecosystem of listening, responding, and co-creating. Silkroad musicians will join local musicians to explore new rhythms and sounds, creating musical possibilities entirely new and deeply human.
When people bring their instruments, voices, and open hearts into one space, something rare happens. A jam session dissolves hierarchy; no one leads for long, and everyone contributes.
Art is made by people, not perfection.
During a Silkroad workshop, participants experiment and collaborate in real time, helping them gain a deeper understanding of creativity as a living, collective act.
Workshops invite audiences into the creative process, breaking down the wall between artist and community.
BOWLING GREEN, OHIO
MARCH 8
3:00PM • Silkroad & The Library
Family music & movement w/ Mazz Swift & Karen Ouzounian
Wood County District Public Library
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
MARCH 9
7:30PM • Discussion & Resonance Circle (Jam)
Bryan Recital Hall, Moore Musical Arts Center @ Bowling Green State University
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MARCH 13
7:00PM • A D-Compressed Gathering
Music & Meditation w/ Silkroad and D-Composed
The Land School
MARCH 14
11:30AM • Resonance Circle (Jam)
Green Line Performing Arts Center
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 17
4:00PM • Cross Cultural Music Workshop
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
MARCH 17
6:00PM • Film Screening/Q&A with Mazz Swift & Karen Ouzounian
Screening episode of My Music with Rhiannon Giddens
Oakland Public Conservatory of Music
MARCH 17
7:00PM • Percussion-Focused Discussion & Resonance Circle (Jam)
BAM House
MARCH 18
4:30PM • Banjo/Fiddle Gathering
Discussing the Black origins of American fiddle & banjo traditions, with demos
Latham Square
MARCH 18
5:30PM • String-Focused Resonance Circle (Jam)
BAM House
MARCH 18
7:00PM • Community Meal
This invitation-based gathering offers Oakland workshop participants a space to reflect, deepen relationships, and honor the spirit of sanctuary that guides this work over a shared, family-style meal.
Understory Oakland
FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA
MARCH 23
7:00PM • Discussion & Resonance Circle (Jam)
Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center
